Side question: Why do the majority of the same people who swear they need weapons to defend themselves from the Government constantly vote in people wanting to expand that same Government's defense budget?

At best you could call it a fruedian slip (which I am anticipating from g5klanz) but this was just Biden bein' Biden

misspoke

Yeah, he's only the vice president, and he's only been charged by the president to shepherd this issue through ... so no need to worry about what he actually said. (BTW, I've watched/read what he said elsewhere. Don't need to do that here.)